Obstacles need not impede cooperation in active matter

Sam Cameron () and Tannie Liverpool ()

Nature, 2022, vol. 611, issue 7937, 668-669

Abstract: A theory shows that active agents can cooperate in the presence of disorder — a result that could inform the design of robots that organize on rough surfaces, or show how cells migrate en masse.

Keywords: Mathematics and computing; Theoretical physics; Physics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1038/d41586-022-03769-3

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